Course: Lexicology

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Course title Lexicology
Course code KČJ/WLEXY
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 7
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Marešová Hana, doc. PhDr. Ph.D., MBA
Course content
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
Lexicology as a science of vocabulary. Its relation to lexicography and phraseology. Relationship to other disciplines, especially philosophy and psychology. Lexical semantics. The word as the central unit of language and the concept of the lexical unit. Form of lexical units. Notional and pragmatic components of word meaning. The stratification of vocabulary. Meaning relations between lexical units. Lexical paradigmatics and syntagmatics. Limit cases of labeling. Indirect nominalization, relations based on similarity and cooccurrence. Word play, signs of linguistic expressiveness and comedy. Phraseological and idiomatic formations. Complex lexical analysis of the text. Vocabulary dynamics. Lexicographical and etymological interpretation of words.

Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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75% participation in full-time teaching, mastery of basic theoretical knowledge and the ability to apply theoretical knowledge to work with specific texts.
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